Elvis is a 1973 album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, which sold over 1 million copies worldwide (despite being released soon after the much more successful Aloha from Hawaii). To differentiate it from his eponymous 1956 release it is sometimes called The "Fool" Album, after its first track. "Fool" was issued as a single and reached number 15 in the UK, backed by a live version of "Steamroller Blues".

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The album tracks "Fool" and "Where Do I Go From Here" were recorded in March 1972. "It's Impossible" is a live recording from the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas from February 1972. Tracks 3, 4, 6–10 were leftovers from the March and May 1971 recording sessions at RCA's Studio B in Nashville. Three songs feature Presley on piano: "It's Still Here", "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" and "I Will Be True". These three selections were all released together for a second time as part of the 1980 boxed set, Elvis Aron Presley. The song "Fool" was also released in this collection. Four other songs in this album were also reissued in other albums: "It's Impossible" (Pure Gold, 1975), "Padre" (He Walks Beside Me, 1978), "(That's What You Get) For Lovin' Me" (A Canadian Tribute, 1978) and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Our Memories Of Elvis Volume 2, 1979).

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Elvis Presley
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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is referred to as the King of Rock and Roll. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis and his music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a popularizer of rockabilly. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys first RCA single, Heartbreak Hotel, was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the figure of rock and roll after a series of successful network television appearances. In November 1956, Presley made his debut in Love Me Tender. In 1958, he was drafted into military service, in 1973, Presley featured in the first globally broadcast concert via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. Several years of drug abuse severely damaged his health. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century and he won three Grammys, also receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Presley was born on January 8,1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Love and Vernon Elvis Presley, Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered stillborn 35 minutes before his own birth. Thus, as a child, Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God, where he found his musical inspiration. Although he was in conflict with the Pentecostal church in his later years, rev. Rex Humbard officiated at his funeral, as Presley had been an admirer of Humbards ministry. Presleys ancestry was primarily a Western European mix, including Scots-Irish, Scottish, German, gladyss great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was possibly a Cherokee Native American. Gladys was regarded by relatives and friends as the dominant member of the small family, Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, evincing little ambition. The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance, the Presleys survived the F5 tornado in the 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of kiting a check written by the landowner, Orville S. Bean and he was jailed for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives

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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis

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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions

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RCA Records
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RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. It is one of SMEs three flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, jazz, the companys name is derived from the initials of the labels former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America. It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records, RCAs Canadian unit is Sonys oldest label in Canada. It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression, kelly, Enrique Iglesias, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Giorgio Moroder, Jennifer Hudson, DAngelo, Pink, Tinashe, G-Eazy, Pitbull, Zayn and Wizkid. In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the worlds largest manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records. The company then became RCA Victor but retained use of the Victor Records name on their labels until the beginning of 1946 when the labels were finally switched over to RCA Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper His Masters Voice trademark, in Shanghai, China, in 1931, RCA Victors British affiliate the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI. This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board, in September 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first 33⅓ rpm records sold to the public, calling them Program Transcriptions. In the depths of the Great Depression, the format was a commercial failure, during the early part of the depression, RCA made a number of attempts to produce a successful cheap label to compete with the dime store labels. The first was the short-lived Timely Tunes label in 1931 sold at Montgomery Ward, in 1932, Bluebird Records was created as a sub-label of RCA Victor. It was originally an 8-inch record with a blue label. In 1933, RCA reintroduced Bluebird and Electradisk as a standard 10-inch label, another cheap label, Sunrise, was produced. The same musical couplings were issued on all three labels and Bluebird Records still survives eight decades after Electradisk and Sunrise were discontinued, RCA also produced records for Montgomery Ward label during the 1930s. Besides manufacturing records for themselves, RCA Victor operated RCA Custom which was the leading record manufacturer for independent record labels, RCA Custom also pressed record compilations for The Readers Digest Association. RCA sold its interest in EMI in 1935, but EMI continued to distribute RCA recordings in the UK, RCA also manufactured and distributed HMV classical recordings on the RCA and HMV labels in North America. During World War II, ties between RCA and its Japanese affiliate JVC were severed, the Japanese record company is today called Victor Entertainment and is still a JVC subsidiary. From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, virtually all union musicians could not make recordings during that period

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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu

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Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite (album)
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Despite the satellite innovation, the US did not air the concert until April 4. Aloha from Hawaii went to #1 on the Billboard album chart, the album dominated the charts, reaching #1 in both the pop and country charts in the US. Aloha from Hawaii was a two-disc set—only the second release of Presleys career. It was initially released only in sound, becoming the first album in the format to top the Billboard album chart. The album also omits Presleys brief announcement concerning the concert being presented for the benefit of the Kui Lee Cancer Fund and this is the penultimate live album that Presley released during his lifetime. The last being Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis the following year, the following tracks were recorded by Presley after the concert and inserted into the broadcast with the exception of No More, which remained unheard until 1978s Mahalo from Elvis. They were not included in the soundtrack album, but they appear on the 1998 CD reissue. Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite VPSX-6089 Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite at Discogs

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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s

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Steamroller Blues
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Steamroller Blues, is a blues parody written by James Taylor, that appeared on his 1970 album Sweet Baby James. It was intended to mock the inauthentic blues bands of the day, the song later appeared on two of Taylors compilation albums and has been recorded by a variety of other artists. Rock journalist David Browne wrote that uring the Flying Machine days in the Village, Taylor had heard one too many pretentious white blues bands, rolling Stone Album Guide critic Mark Coleman, said Taylors song effectively mocks the straining pomposity of then-current white bluesmen. Taylor and Danny Kortchmar, both playing guitars, laid down the track in one night at Sunset Studios, the rhythm section being added later. A tight budget and production schedule forced Taylor to record the song despite suffering from a head cold, the song was included on Taylors diamond-selling Greatest Hits 1976 compilation using a live version recorded in August 1975 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. Another performance, from 1992, was included on his 1993 album, during the 1970s, Elvis Presley added Steamroller Blues to his concert repertoire and included it on his live album Aloha From Hawaii, Via Satellite. Presley also released it as a single in March 1973 with Fool as its track. It was later included on Presleys 2007 compilation The Essential Elvis Presley, a newly-orchestrated version was included on the 2015 album If I Can Dream with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Taylors song was recorded by country music singer Billy Dean and appeared on his 1994 album Fire in the Dark, isaac Hayes performed the song on an episode of The A-Team

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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website

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Elvis (1956 album)
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Elvis / Elvis Presley No.2 is the second studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in October 1956 in mono. It spent four weeks at #1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart that year and it was certified Gold on February 17,1960, and Platinum on August 10,2011, by the Recording Industry Association of America. It was originally released in UK in 1957 as Elvis Presley No.2 with a different front cover and it was also catalogued as Rock n Roll No.2. The latter two, contracted to Hill and Range, the company of Presleys manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Also included was the song with which Presley won second prize at a fair in Tupelo when he was ten years old, Red Foleys 1941 country song, Old Shep. With all but one track on the album recorded at a set of sessions over three days in September, Presley and his touring band of Scotty Moore, Bill Black. Fontana, along with The Jordanaires, managed to recreate the loose feel from Sun Studio days, mixing rhythm and blues and country and western repertoire items as they had on all of his Sun singles. The piano player on this album is not registered in the official RCA archives, except for the song So Glad Youre Mine, which was cut at a previous session in New York. In a 1984 interview conducted by Jan-Erik Kjeseth, Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires stated that he was the player on most of the songs on the album. In an article written by Kjeseth for the Flaming Star magazine, it was argued that the player on Love Me, Old Shep. Ernst Jørgensen, writer of Elvis Presley - A Study in Music, Kjeseth also claims that Elvis played the piano on the single from this session, Playing for Keeps. Again, Jørgensen seems to be of the same opinion, Gordon Stoker played the piano on Rip it Up and Anyplace is Paradise. RCA first reissued the original 12-track album on Compact Disc in 1984 and this issue, in reprocessed stereo sound, was quickly withdrawn and the disc was reissued in original monophonic. RCA reissued an expanded edition of the album in 1999, for the 1999 reissue, six bonus tracks were added that were both sides of three singles, altering the running order. Four of the tracks were chart-toppers, Love Me Tender, Too Much, and the double-sided classic Hound Dog and Dont Be Cruel. Bonus tracks recorded on July 2 at RCA Studios in New York City, in September at Radio Recorders and these rock-nroll tapes are believed to have been among those ignobly dumped into the Delaware River near RCA Victors Camden, New Jersey plant in the late 1950s. J. Fontana – drums The Jordanaires - backing vocals Chart positions for LPM1382 from Billboard Top Pop Albums chart, the album tracks are presented in the same order as on the original LP, followed by the six bonus tracks that were included on the 1999 reissue. Elvis Presley, A Life In Music - The Complete Recording Sessions,1998, the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, revised first edition,1980

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Pure Gold (Elvis Presley album)
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Pure Gold is a 1975 compilation album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley released as part of the RCA Records budget Pure Gold series of albums. Considered a rather mediocre compilation album in terms of content and sound quality, Pure Gold nevertheless sold very well in the wake of Elvis death in August 1977. Kentucky Rain, Fever, Its Impossible, and In The Ghetto are true stereo mixes, all other tracks are in electronically reprocessed stereo. When this album was reissued on CD in the early 1990s. It was certified Gold on September 12,1977, Platinum on March 20,1988, the front cover photo features Elvis from his Aloha from Hawaii concert in 1973

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James Last
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James Last, also known as Hansi, was a German composer and big band leader of the James Last Orchestra. Initially a jazz bassist, his trademark happy music made his numerous albums best-sellers in Germany and his composition Happy Heart became an international success in interpretations by Andy Williams and Petula Clark. His album This Is James Last remained a UK best-seller for 48 weeks, Last undertook his final tour months before his death at age 86, upon discovering in September 2014 that an illness had worsened. His final UK performance was his 90th at Londons Royal Albert Hall, Lasts trademark sound employed big band arrangements of well-known tunes with a jaunty dance beat, often heavy on bass and brass. Last was born to Louis and Martha Last in Bremen, Germany and he was the younger brother of Robert Last and Werner Last. His father was an official at the postal and public works department of the city of Bremen and he began studying the piano at age 10, though he could play simple tunes such as the folk song Hänschen klein when he was 9. His first music teacher felt he lacked any musical talent, Last started playing more actively with his second tutor and switched to the double bass as a teenager. His home city of Bremen was bombed heavily during World War II and he entered the Bückeburg Military Music School of the German Wehrmacht at the age of 14 and learned to play bass, piano and tuba. After the end of the war, he joined Hans Günther Oesterreichs Radio Bremen Dance Orchestra, in 1948 he became the leader of the Last-Becker Ensemble, which performed for seven years. He was voted as the best bassist in the country in a German jazz poll for 1950,1951 and 1952, when the Last-Becker Ensemble disbanded, he became the in-house arranger for Polydor Records, as well as a number of European radio stations. During the next decade he helped arrange hits for such as Helmut Zacharias, Freddy Quinn, Lolita, Alfred Hause. Last first released albums in the U. S. under the titles The American Patrol on Warner Bros. Records around 1964. Last 1965 album, Non-Stop Dancing, was a recording of brief renditions of songs, all tied together by an insistent dance beat. It was a hit and helped him a major European star. Over the next four decades, Last released over 190 records, on these records, he varied his formula by adding different songs from different countries and genres, as well as guest performers like Richard Clayderman and Astrud Gilberto. He also had his own television series throughout the 1970s with guests including ABBA. Lasts trademark sound employed big band arrangements of tunes with a jaunty dance beat. In the UK, his chart singles were The Seduction, the theme from American Gigolo composed by Giorgio Moroder

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Paul Williams (songwriter)
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Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. He also wrote the lyrics to the theme for The Love Boat, with music previously composed by Charles Fox, which was originally sung by Jack Jones. He has worked as well in television, theater, and provided voice-overs for animation, Williams was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Paul Hamilton Williams, an architectural engineer, and his wife, Bertha Mae, a homemaker. His father died in a car accident in 1953 when Williams was 13 years old and his other brother was Mentor Williams, a songwriter as well who penned Dobie Grays 1973 hit Drift Away. Williams began his songwriting career with Biff Rose in Los Angeles. The two men first met while working together on a comedy show. Together they wrote the song Fill Your Heart which was recorded by Rose on his first album, soon thereafter Tiny Tim covered it as the B-side of his hit Tiptoe Through the Tulips. David Bowie also recorded a version of the song on his album Hunky Dory. Rose and Williams also wrote Ill Walk Away, Rose was instrumental in getting Williams his break with A&M Records which resulted in Williams working with songwriter Roger Nichols. An early collaboration with Roger Nichols, Someday Man, was covered by The Monkees on a 1969 single and he also auditioned for, but was not selected to be, a Mouseketeer. Bobby Sherman also sang Cried Like a Baby, anne Murray sang Talk It Over in the Morning. He also wrote the cantata Wings with music by Michel Colombier, a frequent cowriter of Williams was musician Kenneth Ascher, their songs together included the popular childrens favorite Rainbow Connection, sung by Jim Henson in The Muppet Movie. They also wrote You And Me Against The World, and it became a Top 10 hit on Billboard for Helen Reddy in 1974. He contributed lyrics to the Cinderella Liberty song Youre So Nice to Be Around with music by John Williams, along with Ascher and Rupert Holmes, he wrote the music and lyrics to A Star Is Born, with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. The love ballad, Evergreen, from the movie A Star Is Born won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and he has been nominated on other occasions for an Academy Award. and several Golden Globe Awards. He wrote and sang What Would They Say, the song from the made-for-television film The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. More recently, Williams wrote music and lyrics of Silence is Our Song for Richard Barones acclaimed 2010 album Glow and collaborated with Scissor Sisters on their second album, Ta-Dah. In March 2012 it was announced that Williams had written a couple of tunes on Random Access Memories, Williams co-wrote and sang vocals on Touch and co-wrote Beyond

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Ivory Joe Hunter
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Ivory Joe Hunter was an American rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid-1940s and he was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also known as The Happiest Man Alive. His musical output ranged from R&B to blues, boogie-woogie, and country music, uniquely, he was honored at both the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Grand Ole Opry. Hunter was born in Kirbyville, Texas, Ivory Joe was his given name, not a nickname nor a stage name. As a youngster, he developed an early interest in music from his father, Dave Hunter, who played guitar and he was a talented pianist by the age of 13. He made his first recording for Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress as a teenager, Hunter was the uncle of Rick Stevens, the original lead vocalist fro Tower of Power. In the early 1940s, Hunter had his own show in Beaumont, Texas, on KFDM. In 1942 he moved to Los Angeles, joining Johnny Moores Three Blazers in the mid-1940s. He wrote and recorded his first song, Blues at Sunrise, with the Three Blazers for his own label, Ivory Records, in the late 1940s, Hunter founded Pacific Records. In 1947, he recorded for Four Star Records and King Records, two years later, he recorded further R&B hits, on I Quit My Pretty Mama and Guess Who he was backed by members of Duke Ellingtons band. After signing with MGM Records, he recorded I Almost Lost My Mind, I Need You So was a number two R&B hit that same year. With his smooth delivery, Hunter became a popular R&B artist, in April 1951, he made his network TV debut on You Asked for It. He toured widely with a band and became known for his large build, his brightly colored stage suits. By 1954, he had recorded more than 100 songs and moved to Atlantic Records and his first song to cross over to the pop charts was Since I Met You Baby. It was to be his only Top 40 pop song, reaching number 12 on the pop chart, while visiting Memphis, Tennessee, in the spring of 1957, Hunter was invited by Elvis Presley to visit Graceland. The two spent the day together, singing I Almost Lost My Mind and other songs together, Hunter commented, He is very spiritually minded. He showed me every courtesy, and I think hes one of the greatest, Presley recorded several of his songs, including I Need You So, My Wish Came True and Aint That Lovin You, Baby. Hunter was a songwriter, and some estimate he wrote more than 7,000 songs

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Armando Manzanero
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He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in United States in 2014. At the age of eight he was introduced into the world of music in the Escuela de Bellas Artes of his native city, later furthering his musical studies in Mexico City. In 1950, at the age of fifteen, he composed his first melody titled Nunca en el Mundo, the following year he began his professional career as a pianist. In 1959, an executive of RCA Victor urged him to record his first album of love songs, in 1965 he won the first place of the Festival de la Canción in Miami with the song Cuando Estoy Contigo. In 1970, his song Somos Novios was translated into English by Sid Wayne, the English version, Its Impossible, was performed by Perry Como and was nominated for a Grammy. In 1978 he won the first place of the Mallorca Festival in Spain, in 1982, the song Corazón Amigo, was honored in the Yamaha Festival. In 1993 Billboard magazine gave him an award for his excellent musical career, in 2011, Manzanero became President of and one of the main directors of the Asociación Nacional de Autores y Compositores. He also served as Vice President of the association From 1982 through 2011 and his work in defense of copyright laws has strengthened this organization and has given it international acclaim. Manzanero has composed more than four hundred songs, fifty of which have given him international fame and he has participated in numerous radio and television shows, recorded more than thirty albums, and composed the musical scores of several movies. His most famous songs include Voy a apagar la luz, Contigo Aprendí, Adoro, No sé tú, Por Debajo de la Mesa Esta Tarde Vi Llover, Somos Novios, Felicidad, international Jose Guillermo Carrillo Foundation List of singer-songwriters/Mexico

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Gordon Lightfoot
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He has been referred to as Canadas greatest songwriter and internationally as a folk-rock legend. He experienced chart success in Canada with his own recordings, beginning in 1962 with the No.3 hit Im the One. Lightfoots recordings then made an impact on the music charts as well in the 1970s. Sundown a #1 hit, Carefree Highway which followed reaching #10, Rainy Day People at #25, some of Lightfoots albums have achieved gold and multi-platinum status internationally. Bob Dylan, also a Lightfoot fan, called him one of his favorite songwriters and, in an often-quoted tribute, Lightfoot was a featured musical performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1979 and the Companion of the Order of Canada—Canadas highest civilian honour—in 2003, in November 1997, Lightfoot was awarded the Governor Generals Performing Arts Award, Canadas highest honour in the performing arts. On February 6,2012, Lightfoot was presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, in June that year he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. On June 6,2015, Lightfoot received a doctorate of music in his hometown of Orillia from Lakehead University. Lightfoot was born in Orillia, Ontario, to Jessica and Gordon Lightfoot and his mother recognized Lightfoots musical talent early on and schooled him into a successful child performer. His first public performance was Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral in grade four, as a youth, he sang, under the direction of choirmaster Ray Williams, in the choir of Orillias St. Pauls United Church. According to Lightfoot, Williams taught him how to sing with emotion, Lightfoot was a boy soprano, he appeared periodically on local radio in the Orillia area, performed in local operettas and oratorios, and gained exposure through various Kiwanis music festivals. He was twelve when he made his first appearance at Massey Hall in Toronto, as a teenager, Lightfoot learned piano and taught himself to play drums and percussion. He held concerts in Muskoka, an area north of Orillia. In high school, at Orillia District Collegiate & Vocational Institute, Lightfoot performed extensively and he was influenced during this time by 19th-century master American songwriter Stephen Foster. His athletic and scholarly aptitude earned him entrance bursaries at McGill Universitys Schulich School of Music, Lightfoot moved to California in 1958, where he studied jazz composition and orchestration for two years at Hollywoods Westlake College of Music, which had many Canadian students. To support himself there, he sang on demonstration records and wrote, arranged. He was influenced by the music of Pete Seeger, Bob Gibson, Ian and Sylvia Tyson. He rented a place in Los Angeles for a time, but was missing Toronto and he has lived in Canada since then, though he has done much work in the United States, all under an H-1B visa

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Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
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Dont Think Twice, Its All Right is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962, recorded on November 14 that year, and released on the 1963 album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan and as a single. In the liner notes to the release, Nat Hentoff calls the song a statement that maybe you can say to make yourself feel better. As if you were talking to yourself, the song was written around the time that Suze Rotolo indefinitely prolonged her stay in Italy. The melody is based on the public domain traditional song Whos Gonna Buy Your Chickens When Im Gone, the melody was taught to Dylan by folksinger Paul Clayton, who had used the melody in his song Whos Gonna Buy You Ribbons When Im Gone. As well as the melody, a couple of lines were taken from Claytons Whos Gonna Buy You Ribbons When Im Gone. which was recorded in 1960, two years before Dylan wrote Dont Think Twice. Lines taken word-for-word or slightly altered from the Clayton song are, Taint no use to sit and wonder why, darlin, and, So Im walkin down that long, lonesome road. On the first release of the song, instead of So Im walkin down that long, lonesome road babe, where Im bound, I cant tell Dylan sings So long, honey babe, where Im bound, I cant tell. The lyrics were changed when Dylan performed live versions of the song and on cover versions recorded by other artists. In addition, live versions have been released on Before the Flood, Bob Dylan at Budokan, The Bootleg Series Vol.6, Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall and Live at The Gaslight 1962. It has been argued that the guitar on the version of the song. However, Eyolf Østrem, the creator of the website dylanchords, has contended that Dylan himself played the guitar track, in live performances, Dylan often strummed the chords, or flatpicked, but in a similar, fast-paced manner. Moreover, the 1963 Witmark demos version of the song has Bob Dylan finger-picking, furthermore, a recording of an April 1963 concert in New York contains a live version of Dont Think Twice, finger-picked in a manner similar to that heard on the original recording. The song was used on the television series Mad Men, Friday Night Lights, and Men of a Certain Age. It was also used in Nancy Savocas 1991 film Dogfight, starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor, the 2011 film The Help and the October 30,2016 episode of the TV series The Walking Dead. A. R. With Matt Nathanson and Mike Ness, The Kingston Trio, David Wiffen, Billy Paul, guitarist Lenny Breau, Susan Tedeschi, Ryan Montbleau, John Mayer, Albert Hammond Jr. The Allman Brothers Band, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Cock Robin, Gregory and the Hawk, Barbara Dickson, Chris Thile, Brad Mehldau, Kronos Quartet, and Nick Takenobu Ogawa. The Peter, Paul and Mary cover was the single, reaching #9 pop Billboard Hot 100. Johnny Cash adapted portions of the song into his own single Understand Your Man, the Four Seasons released a cover of the song as a single in 1965 under the pseudonym The Wonder Who

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Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan is an American songwriter, singer, painter, and writer. He has been influential in music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when his songs chronicled social unrest, early songs such as Blowin in the Wind and The Times They Are a-Changin became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. Leaving behind his initial base in the American folk music revival, his six-minute single Like a Rolling Stone, recorded in 1965, Dylans lyrics incorporate a wide range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture, initially inspired by the performances of Little Richard and the songwriting of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Dylan has amplified and personalized musical genres. Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica, backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, since 1994, Dylan has published seven books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a musician, Dylan has sold more than 100 million records and he has also received numerous awards including eleven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award. Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a citation for his profound impact on popular music and American culture. In May 2012, Dylan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, in 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in St. Marys Hospital on May 24,1941, in Duluth, Minnesota and he has a younger brother, David. Dylans paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa, in the Russian Empire and his maternal grandparents, Ben and Florence Stone, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in the United States in 1902. Dylans father, Abram Zimmerman – an electric-appliance shop owner – and mother, Beatrice Beatty Stone, were part of a small, close-knit Jewish community. They lived in Duluth until Robert was six, when his father had polio and the returned to his mothers hometown, Hibbing. In his early years he listened to the radio—first to blues and country stations from Shreveport, Louisiana, and later and he formed several bands while attending Hibbing High School. In the Golden Chords, he performed covers of songs by Little Richard and their performance of Danny & the Juniors Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay at their high school talent show was so loud that the principal cut the microphone. In 1959, his high school yearbook carried the caption Robert Zimmerman, the same year, as Elston Gunnn, he performed two dates with Bobby Vee, playing piano and clapping

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James Burton
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James Edward Burton is an American guitarist. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2001, Burton has also recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Critic Mark Demming writes that Burton has a reputation as one of the finest guitar pickers in either country or rock. Burton is one of the best guitar players to touch a fretboard. Burton was born in Dubberly in south Webster Parish near Minden, Louisiana, to Guy M. Burton and the former Lola Poland and she was the daughter of James and Althius Poland. Self-taught, Burton began playing guitar in childhood, by the time he was thirteen, he was playing semi-professionally. A year later he was hired to be part of the band for the popular Louisiana Hayride radio show in Shreveport. While he was still a teenager, Burton left Shreveport for Los Angeles, there, he made numerous recordings as a session musician. Burton created and played the solo on Dale Hawkins 1957 hit song Susie Q. In 1965 he started working on the television program Shindig, which curtailed his touring with Nelson. However, Burton continued contributing to his friends studio albums through the Perspective sessions in April 1968, exposure led to recording session work with a variety of artists, mostly as an unattributed sideman. In 1967 Burton played Dobro on the Richie Furay song, A Childs Claim To Fame on Buffalo Springfields second album, Buffalo Springfield Again. Due to the volume of work, Burton turned down an offer to join Bob Dylans first touring band, in 1969, Presley again asked Burton to join his show in Las Vegas, and, this time, Burton accepted. Burton organized the TCB Band, serving as its leader, a hallmark of Elvis live shows during this period was his exhortation, Play it, James, as a cue for the guitarists solos. For the first season in Vegas in 1969, Burton played his red standard Telecaster, shortly thereafter, he purchased the now familiar pink paisley custom Telecaster. Burton was not sure that Elvis would like it, however, since Elvis did, since 1998, Burton has played lead guitar in Elvis, The Concert which reunited some of Elvis former TCB bandmates, background singers and Elvis orchestral conductor Joe Guercio live on stage. He was joined by a cast of talented musicians which included his bandmate with Presley, Glen D. Hardin, and newer musicians which included Rodney Crowell. However, once Presley was ready to return to the road, Burton returned to perform with him, although the others, including Hardin, just before Presley died in 1977, Burton was called to play on a John Denver television special

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The Sweet Inspirations
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The Sweet Inspirations were an American R&B girl group founded by Emily Cissy Houston, mother of Whitney Houston, and sister of Lee Warrick. The line-up included Judy Guions, Marie Epps, Larry Drinkard, Nicholas Drinkard, Ann Moss, Lee, at that time, Sylvia Shemwell replaced Doris, while Cissy Houston took over from Dionne, with Dee Dee Warwick as the group’s official leader. The group sang backup for many stars, including Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Dee Dee left in 1965, when her solo career began to take off. She was replaced by Myrna Smith, Estelle Brown joined the team soon after, and the line-up that was to become an Atlantic recording group was set. In a recording session on March 28,1967, The Sweet Inspirations provided the back up vocals for Van Morrison on his classic hit Brown Eyed Girl and it was released in June 1967 and rose to No.10 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. In October 2007, Morrison was awarded a Million-Air certificate by BMI for 8 million air plays of Brown Eyed Girl, the Sweet Inspirations recorded by themselves for the first time in April 1967 for Atlantic Records. Within a month of their climb, the group began work on their second album - a gospel record entitled Songs Of Faith & Inspiration. It was released in 1968 under the name Cissy Drinkard & The Sweet Inspirations, on March 30,1968, the group scored their first and only top forty hit on the Billboard Top 40 Pop Chart with the song Sweet Inspiration on Atlantic Records. The record was on the chart for ten weeks and peaked at number 18, the group at this point was composed of Houston, Brown, Shernwell and Smith. In 1967, the group did backing vocals for the Jimi Hendrix single Burning of the Midnight Lamp which was featured on the album Electric Ladyland in 1968. They also backed Dusty Springfield on her album Dusty in Memphis, in 1969, the group recorded their fourth album, Sweets for my Sweet. The Sweet Inspirations also began recording and touring with Elvis Presley as both singers and his warm-up act, as well as doing occasional ‘live’ dates with Aretha Franklin. The association with Presley became well-publicized as he introduced the Sweet Inspirations on his telecast concerts. Houstons last recording session with The Sweet Inspirations was in October 1969, since she wanted to pursue a solo career, the session produced the group’s biggest R&B hit in some time. A Gamble & Huff composition, Gotta Find Me A Brand New Lover appeared on the fifth album Sweet Sweet Soul. Also included from that set are That’s The Way My Baby Is, Ann disappeared during a tour with Elvis Presley and did not return to the group. A final Atlantic session in June 1970 brought the group its last two singles for the label, This World, and Evidence, in 1973, Estelle, Myrna, and Sylvia recorded an album for Stax Records. They group broke up shortly thereafter, in 1978, the group sang backing vocals on Frankie Vallis No.1 hit Grease from the film of the same name

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Glen Hardin
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Glen Dee Hardin is an American piano player and arranger. He has performed and recorded with notable artists as Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris, John Denver. Hardin was born in Wellington, Texas, a town in the Texas panhandle. Shortly afterwards, he became a member of the Shindogs, the band on Shindig. An American music variety show aired on the ABC network from 1964 to 1966. The series house band, the Shin-diggers, also featured a young Glen Campbell, James Burton, Billy Preston, Delaney Bramlett, Joey Cooper, an early episode was taped in Britain with The Beatles as the guests. The series featured other British Invasion bands including the Who and the Rolling Stones, would continue to broadcast episodes from London throughout its run. Many popular performers of the day played on the show including Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Lesley Gore, Bo Diddley and Sonny and it notably featured both black and white acts during a time of racial segregation in the United States. A native of West Texas, Hardin had grown up with drummer Jerry Allison, mauldin, both members of Buddy Hollys band the Crickets. After Hollys death in 1959, they continued to perform and record with guitarist/songwriter Sonny Curtis, during this period Hardin was made an honorary member of the Crickets and has played with them off and on for many years. Hardin found his first success as a songwriter in 1965 with Count Me In, where Will The Words Come From and My Hearts Symphony were also hits that Hardin penned for Lewis. In 1970 Hardin got a call from Elvis Presley to replace Larry Muhoberac in the TCB Band, featuring James Burton, Jerry Scheff, Hardin remained with the band until 1976, touring and recording with Presley and appearing in the Aloha From Hawaii TV special. Hardin studied arranging and arranged many of Presleys hits such as The Wonder of You, Let It Be Me and this high-profile position soon led to many other opportunities. In 1972 Gram Parsons, widely regarded as the father of rock, hired the TCB Band to record his first album. Hardin played piano and was director on the sessions for this as well as Parsons second album. Through his work with Parsons, Hardin was introduced to Emmylou Harris, with whom he would work after Parsons death in the highly praised and influential Hot Band. Across several years this band included such notables as James Burton, John Ware, Rodney Crowell, Hank deVito, Emory Gordy, Jr. Albert Lee, Larrie Londin, Hardin also played piano on the Roy Orbison television special, A Black and White Night. Hardin toured in Sweden with the Cadillac band in 2007 and 2008, Hardin continues to tour, regularly performing in Europe

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Joe Esposito (author)
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Joseph Carmine Esposito was internationally known as Elvis Presleys road manager and friend. After Elvis death, Joe became an author and publisher of several Elvis books, Esposito is best known for his association with Elvis Presley. He first met Presley while serving in the military in 1958 at an Army base in Friedberg, West Germany. They both went through training at Fort Hood, Texas, but did not meet face to face until a year later when they were both stationed in West Germany, where they quickly became lifelong friends. Esposito became Elviss road manager and friend beginning in 1960, Esposito served as co-best man, with Marty Lacker at Elviss wedding while Espositos wife, Joanie, served as the matron of honor. After Elvis death in 1977, Esposito went to work for Jerry Weintraub becoming the manager for greats including Michael Jackson, The Bee Gees, Karen Carpenter. Esposito, Col. Tom Parker and Jerry Schilling served as consultants in the movie This Is Elvis. Esposito was a consultant on multiple Elvis projects and was considered one of the most respected sources on Elvis and his home movies are featured in many projects including the CBS Primetime Special, Elvis By the Presleys. Esposito has 3 children, Debbie and Cindy from his first marriage to Joan and Anthony from his marriage to Martha Gallub. Esposito died November 23,2016, after a year of declining health and his daughter mentioned the cause to be complications of dementia. rareelvispresley. He was also portrayed by Ian Leson in the 2005 CBS mini-series Elvis and he was spoofed by Chris Farley as the driver for Tiny Elvis on Saturday Night Live in 1992 hosted by Nicolas Cage. Joe Esposito at the Internet Movie Database Interview with Joe Esposito TCBJOE - The Official Joe Esposito Elvis Fan Site

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The Imperials
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The Imperials are an American Christian music group that has been active for over 50 years. Originating as a gospel quartet, the innovative group would become pioneers of contemporary Christian music in the 1960s. There have been many changes for the band in membership and musical styles over the years and they would go on to win four Grammys, and be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. The band had its genesis when long-time Statesmen Quartet member Jake Hess retired from that group on December 7,1963, Hess wanted to start a new group recognized as king of the Southern gospel field and thought the Imperials would be a good moniker. After signing with Benson Records in 1964, the recorded their first of many albums on the Heart Warming Records label. The following year, the organization moved from Atlanta to Nashville. After 2 years with the group, tenor Nielsen was first to go, murrays past included stints with the Stamps Trio, Inspirationals, and Orrell Quartet. About this time, Slaughter also departed with Joe Moscheo of the Harmoneers replacing him at the keyboard, health issues also forced Hess to retire and McSpadden chose to leave as well. In 1966, Hess turned the reins of the group over to Morales, Moscheo, with new members, Roger Wiles and ex-Stamps Quartet member Terry Blackwood, a new name, along came a new, more contemporary sound on the 1967 album New Dimensions. It also brought them their first of many awards, Male Quartet of the Year in 1969 from the Gospel Music Association, Elvis Presley had long harbored a love for gospel and Jake Hess in particular. The group recorded with Elvis in sessions from May 1966 to June 1971 and this included his last two Grammy Award-producing albums, How Great Thou Art and He Touched Me. At the same time the Imperials appeared with Jimmy Dean, live, in 1972, because of scheduling conflicts, they decided to stop performing with Elvis. The following year the group performing in concert with Jimmy Dean. The Imperials surprised gospel music fans in February 1972 by hiring Sherman Andrus, a member of Andrae Crouch. This made them the first interracial Christian group America had ever seen, the lineup of the group stayed stable with Andrus and Terry Blackwood sharing lead vocals through 1975 when Joe Moscheo left just after recording of Follow the Man with the Music. The following year, the pair left to form contemporary Christian music act Andrus. In Early 1976, the group hired baritone David Will, who would stay on for 23 years with the group, and soulful belter Russ Taff as their new lead vocalist. The Taff-led outfit is heard on the albums Sail On, Imperials Live, Heed the Call, One More Song for You, Christmas With the Imperials and it was during this era that the group found their biggest success, both with awards and on the charts

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Norbert Putnam
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Norbert Putnam is an American record producer and musician. Putnam grew up near Florence, Alabama and was part of the Muscle Shoals musicians brought to Nashville to play for Elvis Presley in 1965, on the Elvis recording of Merry Cristmas Baby, Putnam is referenced by Elvis, when he calls Wake up Putt. As a producer, Putnam was responsible for work on Nashvilles non-country music output from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. His credits include works that established the popularity of performers such as Jimmy Buffett, Joan Baez, Dan Fogelberg, Brewer & Shipley, Pousette Dart Band, Donovan, John Hiatt. Cale, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Putnam is still an active touring musician, record producer, author. Putnam resides in Florence, Alabama with his wife Sheryl and two poodles, Sofie and Gracie and his new book Music Lessons is scheduled for publication in 2015. Norbert Putnam at the Internet Movie Database Norbert Putnam NAMM Oral History Program Interview

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Jerry Scheff
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Jerry Obern Scheff is an American bassist, best known for his work with Elvis Presley in the 1960s and 1970s as a member of his TCB Band and his work on The Doors final recordings. Scheff grew up in the Vallejo, California, after serving in the U. S. Navy he returned to California, ending up in Los Angeles as a session musician. After working at the Sands nightclub in Los Angeles with 16-year-old Billy Preston, Merry Clayton and that success led to other early record appearances with Bobby Sherman, Johnny Mathis, Johnny Rivers, Neil Diamond, Nancy Sinatra, Pat Boone, Sammy Davis Jr. Bobby Vinton, The Monkees, The Everly Brothers, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, in 1971, he appeared on L. A. Woman, the final album recorded by The Doors, playing bass on every track. In July 1969, Scheff became a member of Elvis Presleys touring TCB Band, with the band, he performed in concert with Presley from July 1969 to February 1973 and from April 1975 until Presleys final show on June 26,1977 at the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. He appears on Aloha from Hawaii, Back In Memphis, Thats The Way It Is, Elvis As Recorded At Madison Square Garden, the movie from 1972 Elvis On Tour. In later years, Scheff worked with Willy DeVille, Bob Dylan, John Denver, Elvis Costello, The Doors, Sam Phillips, Richard Thompson, Scheff also was a bassist for Southern Pacific on their debut album. He also participated in the 1987 cable television concert Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black, in June 2009 he gave a sold out performance in Breda, Netherlands with the remaining TCB bandmembers. Scheff has stopped touring with the TCB band due to creative, Scheff has three sons, Jason, Darin, and Lauren Scheff. Jason was the bassist for the band Chicago from 1985 until May 2016, Jason Scheff co-wrote the song Bigger Than Elvis as a tribute to his father Jerry, featuring himself on vocals and Jerry on the bass guitar. As of 2010, Scheff splits his time between his native California and his home in a village in Northumberland, England with his wife Natalie. Scheff wrote the 2012 musical autobiography titled Way Down, Playing Bass with Elvis, Dylan, the Doors, in 2013 and 2014, Scheff performed two concerts in Birmingham with the singer Janson Bloomer, playing the greatest hits of Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and the Doors

Elvis Presley
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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is referred to as the King of Rock and Roll. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis and his music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Record

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Presley in a publicity photograph for the 1957 film Jailhouse Rock

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Presley's birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi

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Presley in a Sun Records promotional photograph, 1954

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The "iconic cover" of Presley's 1956 debut album featuring a photo taken July 31, 1955, in Tampa, Florida

Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usu

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Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2006, showing a quartet lineup for a rock band (from left to right: bassist, lead vocalist, drummer, and guitarist).

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Elvis Presley in a promotion shot for Jailhouse Rock in 1957

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Chubby Checker in 2005

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The Beach Boys performing in 1964

Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition fro

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The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that the term "pop" refers to music performed by such artists as the Rolling Stones (pictured here in a 2006 performance)

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According to several sources, MTV helped give rise to pop stars such as Michael Jackson and Madonna; and Jackson and Madonna helped make MTV.

RCA Records
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RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. It is one of SMEs three flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, jazz, the companys name is derived from the init

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Label of an RCA Victor 78 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA manufactured 78s alongside the 45 until 1958.

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Label of an RCA Victor 45 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA used this label for its 45 RPM records from 1954 to at least 1964.

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RCA used this label for its American 45 RPM records during the Dynagroove era.

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RCA's LP label during the Dynagroove era was also used for 45 RPM records of the mid-to-late 1960s in countries such as Argentina, where this single was pressed.

Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select th

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Alan Parsons in an ESO 50th anniversary video.

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A Danish recording session

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Mixing Console

Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite (album)
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Despite the satellite innovation, the US did not air the concert until April 4. Aloha from Hawaii went to #1 on the Billboard album chart, the album dominated the charts, reaching #1 in both the pop and country charts in the US. Aloha from Hawaii was a two-disc set—only the second release of Presleys career. It was initially released only in sound,

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Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite

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Reissue cover

Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Ty

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45 rpm single record

Steamroller Blues
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Steamroller Blues, is a blues parody written by James Taylor, that appeared on his 1970 album Sweet Baby James. It was intended to mock the inauthentic blues bands of the day, the song later appeared on two of Taylors compilation albums and has been recorded by a variety of other artists. Rock journalist David Browne wrote that uring the Flying Mac

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James Taylor's 1970/76 publicity photo

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Even the King played Steamroller Blues all the way to his last tour

AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first r

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AllMusic's logotype and logo (since July 2013)

Elvis (1956 album)
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Elvis / Elvis Presley No.2 is the second studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in October 1956 in mono. It spent four weeks at #1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart that year and it was certified Gold on February 17,1960, and Platinum on August 10,2011, by the Recording Industry Association of America

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Elvis

Pure Gold (Elvis Presley album)
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Pure Gold is a 1975 compilation album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley released as part of the RCA Records budget Pure Gold series of albums. Considered a rather mediocre compilation album in terms of content and sound quality, Pure Gold nevertheless sold very well in the wake of Elvis death in August 1977. Kentucky Rain, Fever, Its Im

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Pure Gold

James Last
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James Last, also known as Hansi, was a German composer and big band leader of the James Last Orchestra. Initially a jazz bassist, his trademark happy music made his numerous albums best-sellers in Germany and his composition Happy Heart became an international success in interpretations by Andy Williams and Petula Clark. His album This Is James Las

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Last in 1970

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Last in 2009

Paul Williams (songwriter)
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Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. He also wrote the lyrics to the theme for The Love Boat, with music previously composed by Charles Fox, which was originally sung by Jack Jones. He has worked as well in television, theater, and provided voice-overs for animation, Williams was born in Omaha, Nebraska

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Williams at the 2011 ASCAP concert

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Williams performing in 1974.

Ivory Joe Hunter
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Ivory Joe Hunter was an American rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid-1940s and he was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also known as The Happiest Man Alive. His musical output ranged from R&B to blues, boogie-woogie, and country music, uniquely, he was honored at bot

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Ivory Joe Hunter

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Ivory Joe Hunter in his network television debut on You Asked for It (DuMont, April 1951)

Armando Manzanero
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He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in United States in 2014. At the age of eight he was introduced into the world of music in the Escuela de Bellas Artes of his native city, later furthering his musical studies in Mexico City. In 1950, at the age of fifteen, he composed his first melody titled Nunca en el Mundo, the following year he b

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Armando Manzanero

Gordon Lightfoot
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He has been referred to as Canadas greatest songwriter and internationally as a folk-rock legend. He experienced chart success in Canada with his own recordings, beginning in 1962 with the No.3 hit Im the One. Lightfoots recordings then made an impact on the music charts as well in the 1970s. Sundown a #1 hit, Carefree Highway which followed reachi

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Lightfoot performing at Interlochen, Michigan in 2009

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Lightfoot, right, at a music industry function in Toronto in 1965

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Performing in Toronto, 2008, playing his twelve-string guitar

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Lightfoot's star on Canada's Walk of Fame

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
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Dont Think Twice, Its All Right is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962, recorded on November 14 that year, and released on the 1963 album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan and as a single. In the liner notes to the release, Nat Hentoff calls the song a statement that maybe you can say to make yourself feel better. As if you were talking to yourself, the so

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"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"

Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan is an American songwriter, singer, painter, and writer. He has been influential in music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when his songs chronicled social unrest, early songs such as Blowin in the Wind and The Times They Are a-Changin became anthems for the Civil Rights Movemen

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With Joan Baez during the civil rights " March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ", August 28, 1963

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Bob Dylan in November 1963

James Burton
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James Edward Burton is an American guitarist. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2001, Burton has also recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Critic Mark Demming writes that Burton has a reputation as one of the finest guitar pickers in either country or rock. Burton is one of the best guitar players to touch a fretboard. Burton w

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James Burton Live in Concert – 2009

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Statue of Burton at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium

The Sweet Inspirations
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The Sweet Inspirations were an American R&B girl group founded by Emily Cissy Houston, mother of Whitney Houston, and sister of Lee Warrick. The line-up included Judy Guions, Marie Epps, Larry Drinkard, Nicholas Drinkard, Ann Moss, Lee, at that time, Sylvia Shemwell replaced Doris, while Cissy Houston took over from Dionne, with Dee Dee Warwick as

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The Sweet Inspirations in 1967

Glen Hardin
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Glen Dee Hardin is an American piano player and arranger. He has performed and recorded with notable artists as Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris, John Denver. Hardin was born in Wellington, Texas, a town in the Texas panhandle. Shortly afterwards, he became a member of the Shindogs, the band on Shindig. An American music variety show aired on the ABC

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Glen D. Hardin

Joe Esposito (author)
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Joseph Carmine Esposito was internationally known as Elvis Presleys road manager and friend. After Elvis death, Joe became an author and publisher of several Elvis books, Esposito is best known for his association with Elvis Presley. He first met Presley while serving in the military in 1958 at an Army base in Friedberg, West Germany. They both wen

The Imperials
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The Imperials are an American Christian music group that has been active for over 50 years. Originating as a gospel quartet, the innovative group would become pioneers of contemporary Christian music in the 1960s. There have been many changes for the band in membership and musical styles over the years and they would go on to win four Grammys, and

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(l to r) Evans, Smith, Will, and Morales

Norbert Putnam
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Norbert Putnam is an American record producer and musician. Putnam grew up near Florence, Alabama and was part of the Muscle Shoals musicians brought to Nashville to play for Elvis Presley in 1965, on the Elvis recording of Merry Cristmas Baby, Putnam is referenced by Elvis, when he calls Wake up Putt. As a producer, Putnam was responsible for work

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Norbert Putnam

Jerry Scheff
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Jerry Obern Scheff is an American bassist, best known for his work with Elvis Presley in the 1960s and 1970s as a member of his TCB Band and his work on The Doors final recordings. Scheff grew up in the Vallejo, California, after serving in the U. S. Navy he returned to California, ending up in Los Angeles as a session musician. After working at th